DENVER — A series of tornadoes swept across eastern Colorado, causing several minor injuries and damaging mobile homes and buildings. Another spring storm brought deadly driving conditions to northern Arizona.

The National Weather Service said at least four tornadoes hit in Yuma County Saturday, about 100 miles east of Denver, near Colorado’s borders with Nebraska and Kansas.

One of those twisters struck just north of the town of Wray about 6 p.m. and left five people with minor injuries, according to NWS Science and Operations officer Jeremy Martin.

Martin said that tornado also damaged some buildings and other structures. Storm chasers reported that it traveled for about 10 miles on the ground.

Martin said that a survey team will travel to the area to get a better assessment of the storm and its damage.

There were no immediate reports of injury or damage from the other three confirmed tornadoes in the area.

Earlier in the day, officials said a tornado in Morgan County damaged about a dozen mobile homes and caused some minor injuries.

Bernie Meier, a meteorologist in the NWS office in Boulder, Colo., said the twister near the community of Wiggins, about 65 miles northeast of Denver, was one of at least two in Morgan County.

County Sheriff James Crone said most of the camper vehicles were unoccupied when the tornado hit, and everyone refused medical care.

The NWS had issued alerts for people to take shelter from large hail and severe thunderstorms as the storms moved through the Front Range toward the Nebraska border.

Meanwhile, two people died and six others were injured in a series of weather-related traffic crashes in northern Arizona.

Around 10 a.m., a vehicle rolled because of icy roads and hail on Interstate 40 near the community of Ash Fork. Two people tried to help the occupants and were struck and killed by a commercial vehicle, authorities said.

Associated Press